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Beckenbauer really is THICK, isn't he?
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It is a bit troubling if we need a misquote from a serial winner to get us going.
Well, not quite. He said that "English players appear tired. They have a good reason: professionals in the Premier League play more games than their counterparts in the Bundesliga, including two competitions, which is why they're often burnt-out when it comes to World Cups and European Championships...Our players seem in better physical condition."
As I said, I don't think that's an unreasonable thing to say. We haven't exactly set international tournaments alight in the past 30 years.
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theonesmith
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- Oct 27, 2008
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I don't think it will change anything really, Capello won't need it and will hopefully keep them going in his calm controlled manner.
Especially considering that half of the German team, are descended from people those stormtroopers were trying to kill...
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Considering most of our tabloid press will spend the next few days photoshopping tin helmets, beach towels and Luftwaffe uniform on to the faces of various involved parties, I doubt we're in a position to criticise what actually seems like a fairly reasonable statement from Beckenbauer.
Southwick_Seagull
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- Oct 8, 2008
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I know but ssh!
Kalimantan Gull
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Ha ha!!! spot on
hillbilly
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What messed up a little because they don't want to play us in the last 16?
Gritt23
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I think we need calm heads, and FB is doing what he can to ensure we are anything but.
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Pony.
As in cockney rhyming slang = crap. very crap.
As in one trick.
Yep, they would have liked to have played Slovenia.
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Indeed. Given the footballing history between us and Germany, if England can't get themselves fired up for this game, and a chance to knock one of our fiercest rivals out of the tournament, then there really is no hope.
S'hampton Seagull
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I agree, What he says is pretty much spot on. Truth hurts I'm afarid!
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Eh? If we looked shattered then the last game would have seen us play abysmally. Fact is, we looked a lot fresher than the previous two games (Rooney aside) and the Germans are the ones who look laboured in their last 2.
Coupled with the fact that we stuffed them last time, I put it down to a bit of winding-up, that's all.
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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and look what happened after Bilic made that comment... 4 - 1 and 5 - 1 against Croatia who were undoubtedly one of the better teams in the world at that time...
Pavilionaire
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Unfortunately, the usual carrots of playing in a world cup / playing for your country don't seem to motivate most of the England side.
Beckenbauer's comments are welcome because they WILL help us prepare for the Germany game. We'll find out soon enough whether our players are "burnt out" although, as John Isner showed last night, even sportsment who are physically f***ed can still have a lot of fight and guts about them.